NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...
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General Atomics testing remotely piloted flight with satellite network key to polar operations
The uncrewed aircraft manufacturer says it has completed two test flights of a Grey Eagle 25M controlled remotely via a ...
OTD In Space – February 28: Discoverer 1 Spy Satellite Goes Missing After Launch
On February 28, 1959, the U.S. Air Force launched a new spy satellite prototype called Discoverer 1. This was the first satellite that NASA launched toward the south pole in an attempt to put it in a ...
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Long March 8 launches Thousand Sails satellites from commercial spaceport
A new group of 18 satellites entered orbit Tuesday for the Thousand Sails constellation with the first launch from a new ...
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Science: Space Watch’s First Catch
Strayed Capsule. In the Discoverer series, the Air Force’s purpose is to fire a satellite into polar orbit, then bring it back by firing a retrorocket that detaches a recovery capsule ...
Isro achieves SpaDeX satellites’ de-docking
The space agency added that the in-orbit performance of the docked satellites was extensively analysed, and an immediate ...
Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk
There's a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership ...
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Climate Change Might Increase Satellite Collisions, Limiting How Many Can Safely Orbit Earth, Study Finds
Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...
NASA launches satellite on mission to detect water on the moon
A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water - a precious resource for lunar missions - resides on the moon's surface in places such as ...
ISRO undocks SpaDex satellites in first attempt
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully undocked the SpaDex satellites, paving way for Bharatiya Antriksha ...
Climate change may reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space
MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways ...
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India successfully undocks SpaDeX satellites
The ISRO accomplished the pivotal operation of undocking SpaDeX satellites in the first attempt at 09:20 local time on Thursday. The undocking of the satellites took place in 460 km circular orbit ...